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"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translationーthe gold st……続きを見る

Tout à la fois charmant et profond, sensible et badin, le théâtre de Marivaux est un inlassable paysage ; tout y fait mouche... Le père prudent et équitable, L’amour et la vérité, Arlequin poli par ……続きを見る

"Aedi, bardi e poeti, cantori, trovatori e vati" è un'antologia divisa in più volumi [gli altri volumi sono ancora in fase di pubblicazione] che cerca di ripercorrere il cammino e l'evoluzione della……続きを見る

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What give……続きを見る

Quand un musicien fait ses gammes poétiques dans des carnets... Écrire dans ses carnets c'est, comme pour le musicien, faire ses gammes et les répéter à l'infini, retirer un dièse ici, ajouter un bé……続きを見る

C’était en 1926. Je venais d’entrer comme jeune pilote de ligne à la société Latécoère qui assura, avant l’Aéropostale, puis Air France, la liaison Toulouse-Dakar. Là j’apprenais le métier. À mon to……続きを見る

The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradisoーtogether in one volume. Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic ……続きを見る

A new Jules Verne tale is reason enough for ringing the bell in your town square. Fans of Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, In Search of the Castaways, The Light ……続きを見る

Il est connu comme auteur de contes pour enfants. C’est à lui qu’on doit la mise en forme définitive de contes populaires sous le titre : Contes de ma mère l’Oye, parmi lesquels les très célèbres : ……続きを見る

Un beau recueil de poésie naturaliste. Des vers LE MUR UN COUP DE SOLEIL TERREUR UNE CONQUÊTE NUIT DE NEIGE ENVOI D’AMOUR DANS LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES AU BORD DE L’EAU LES OIES SAUVAGES DÉCOUVERTE ……続きを見る

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Ho……続きを見る

Bruto Primo Vittorio Alfieri, drammaturgo, poeta e scrittore italiano (1749-1803) Questo libro elettronico presenta «Bruto Primo», di Vittorio Alfieri. Indice interattivo: -01- A propo……続きを見る

King Solomon, one of the Bible's most famous figures, died as an apostate. How could a man fabled for his wisdom reach the conclusion that God was false? The Armageddon Conspiracy reveals the answer……続きを見る

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and conseq……続きを見る

Nu sidder du sørgmodigog venter mig forgæves,Mørket, som har skjult min Vej,det kan jo ikke hæves.Og du faar ikke Brev i Hast,og mange tror mit Liv sat til,men du, min Ven, alene vilpaa Gensyns-Time……続きを見る

Cette anthologie est un parcours à la découverte de nombreux poèmes d’André Breton écrits entre 1911 et 1958. Breton, avant-garde du surréalisme, explore les possibilités infinies de l’écriture pour……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of dist……続きを見る

This macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. 続きを見る

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's incomparable tragic play. "To be, or not to be: that is the question" There is arguably no work of fiction quoted as often as William Shakespeare……続きを見る

Ce livre numérique comprend des oeuvres complètes d'Arthur Rimbaud. L'édition est méticuleusement éditée et formatée. En plus des oeuvres majeures, cet ouvrage présente de nombreux textes peu connus……続きを見る

Written originally in French in 1892, this sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance was translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. The play inspired some of Aubrey Beardsley's finest ……続きを見る

When a young man is helped by an old guy (with problems of his own), to find his way back to normality after being beaten up - fate takes them both on a perilous journey, with friends and adversarie……続きを見る

Follow Abigail as she is hurled, against her will, through a thousand years of life to gain the experience that could save the World as civilization, in the not too distant future, begins to decay……続きを見る

Widely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) brought the social problems and ideas of his day to center stage. Creating ……続きを見る

The events of the first Good Friday from a Roman perspective. Not an angel or a saint in sight!.. A dramatisation of the facts as recorded in the Passion Narrative of Matthew. Enacted at the Praetor……続きを見る

One of the most important Latin-American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nicaraguan poet and essayist Rubén Darío (the pen name of Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) is cons……続きを見る

12 months after a nuclear apocalypse the survivors are facing the challenges to build a viable society. a variety of threats continue to bedevil their lives. They set about drafting a constitution t……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS I INTRODUCTION Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe sum up the chief phases of European philosophy II LUCRET……続きを見る

In 1890’s London, six-year old Jimmy Stockley’s mum throws him out of their apartment while she services clients. Jimmy runs away and joins a caravan circus. Taken in by a new mum, Jimmy grows into ……続きを見る

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play. It was published in two parts: Faust: der Tragodie erster Teil (translated as: Faust: The Tragedy Part One) and Faust: der Tragodie zweiter Teil ……続きを見る